transom
noun
a crosspiece separating a door or the like from a window or fanlight above it.
transomed
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a word derived from
transom.
Example Sentences
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It was an ancient edifice of the fifteenth century, once a palace, now a training-school, with mullioned and transomed windows, and a courtyard in front shut in from the road by a wall.
From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Everywhere we see signs of individual thought and design mainly directed to softening the rigidity of the horizontal lines of the square-headed and transomed "Perpendicular" windows.
From The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains by Frederick W. Woodhouse
The walls are of great thickness, nearly six feet, and at the end are some later transomed Elizabethan windows, bricked up, and in a small outhouse below is "T.—1684;" a still later time-mark.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers
On the front facing the expected foes the openings are but little more than arrow-slits; on that within, facing the town, are well-proportioned mullioned and transomed windows.
From Vanishing England by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
Each story contains two windows of two lights, transomed, the whole terminating in an embattled parapet, with crocketed pinnacles at the corners, surmounted by vanes.
